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Position & Department: Chairman/Professor, Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture

Research Intersts: Crop Production, Intercropping system, Planting geometry, Production technology and problems of major crops. My current interest is focused on the intercropping with special emphasis on crop nutrition especially in rice-wheat cropping system and improving the quality and yield of cereals.

Research Intersts: The ways that plants coordinate and integrate numerous physical, chemical and biological processes to produce new biomass and maintain existing biomass, fascinates me. I want to combine the knowledge of Agronomy and meteorology to maximize crop yields. Finally I wish to understand how variation in atmospheric temperature, carbon dioxide and precipitation affect plant growth and maintenance metabolism. To pursue these interests my research focuses on mechanistic modeling of crop growth, development and yield. The models are framed within the context of biological and ecological hierarchies and explain the linkages between environmental constraints and plant functioning. A second approach I used to address my interests involves synthesis results of experimental studies on crop environment interactions. This includes collaboration with interdisciplinary research teams addressing high priority agricultural issues about effects of climate change on crop productivity. I want to build novel bridges between experimental research, in both field and laboratory, and process modeling for improving understanding of environmental and genetic constraints in agro-ecosystem. As a member of faculty, I look forward to exciting interaction with undergraduate and post graduate students.

Research Intersts: Aim is to combine the knowledge of Agronomy and Microbiology and to fulfill the following interests; weed control by biocontrol methods, composting and biofertilizer, water and wastewater treatment, application of microbiology in Agriculture, human health and industry, biodegradation and bioremediation, microbial ecology, microbial taxonomy, use of biologically active compounds produced by microbes.

Research Intersts: 1-Allelopathic effect of weeds and crops on crop plants.
2-To study weed seed bank.
3-Use of agro-chemicals and their effect on plant and soil.
4-Weed management in crops.
5-Studies into biology and ecology of weed.
5-Integrated weed control.

Research Intersts: Sustainable Agriculture / Integrated nutrient management: Our ecology is more important because without ecology there will be no economy. Therefore taking under consideration, the above mentioned phrase, I am working on the integrated management of nutrients especially Nitrogen management for maize.

Research Intersts: My research focus in on conservation agronomy and cropping system research with special emphasis on field crops and the management practices for plants and soils to address agricultural and environmental challenges. In addition, agronomy of fodder crops and to develop economically viable, highly productive and sustainable non-legume and legume forages sustainable for general adoption by the grower particularly the small growers of the country is also being emphasized.

Research Intersts: Research focuses on the best management practices for enhancing efficiency of NPK, fertilizer placement and weeds identification/management; integrated nutrients management and their impact on crops under water deficit conditions; physiological processes that determine the crop growth, development and yield.

Research Intersts: Main focus is to improve the qualitative and quantitative traits of forages especially maize and sorghum through mixed/ intercropping of leguminous forages like clusterbean, cowpea, ricebean and susbania in different planting pattern.

Research Intersts: Crop Nutrition Management of crops ,Role of macro and micro-nutrients in the improving the quality and yield of major and minor crops, Agronomy of cropping systems for enhancing yield of crops.

Research Intersts: Rice is the major crop of the world especially in the Asia. In Pakistan it comes second after the wheat It is therefore imperative to develop advanced production technology to enhance the productivity of rice in this region .I am the member of the research group in department of Agronomy working on production Agronomy of major crops and cropping systems .My focus of research is the sowing techniques ad methodology of sowing rice. My area of interest is to evaluate and promote direct seeding culture in rice because it avoids lot of penalties entailed on raising, transporting and transplanting of rice nursery in transplanted rice.

Research Intersts: Climate change may seriously threaten food production required to feed future generations across the globe. It has many facets, for instance changes in long-term trends in temperature and rainfall regimes as well as increasing variability in extreme events all affecting agricultural production. It is, therefore, imperative that mechanisms and causes of the stress effects on plant growth and development may be determined systematically, and strategies may be adopted to overcome adverse effects of stresses in order to achieve maximum productivity from the high temperature and drought-hit areas. My current interests are focused on the expression of stress proteins and other stress related primary and secondary metabolites under water, salinity, heat and cadmium stresses, and finding strategies to fetch greater yields under such conditions. Among the various crops major emphasis is on wheat, rice, chickpea and maize.

Position & Department: Professor, Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture

Research Intersts: Weeds pose serious challenge to sustainability of agricultural systems worldwide and inflict yield losses of 20-30% in different crops. Thus, securing quantity and quality of produce against weeds damage is of utmost significance for food security. A successful weed management program relies on a sound knowledge of weed ecology, cultural measures besides herbicides and their interaction. My current research priorities are weed dynamics in different crop rotations and tillage systems, manipulation of allelopathic crop residues for the management of noxious weeds, microbial transformation during residue decomposition, and development of integrated weed management systems for different field crops with major emphasis in direct seeded rice. I am interested in studying the impact of various biotic and abiotic stresses in crops of economic significance in the context of changing climatic optima, and looking for strategies that might alleviate such impacts on agricultural productivity.

Position & Department: Professor, Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture

Research Intersts: I am interested in agricultural and environmental sciences and irrigation management. Agriculture is highly dependent on weather and, therefore, changes in global climate could have major effects on crop water needs and yields and thus world food supply. Under climate change scenarios, demand for irrigation water will increase due to large decreases in summer rainfall and increases in temperature and radiation. Irrespective of the degree of climate change at any location, the risk of climatic variability within and between seasons is likely to be greatest in vulnerable tropical environments where the availability of soil moisture and high temperatures are already limitations to crop growth. One option to reduce the potential impacts of climate change on food security is to assess the contribution that previously underutilized food crops can make to agriculture in those region where limitations such as drought are likely to increase.

Position & Department: Professor, Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture

Research Intersts: Research focuses on the best bet management practices for enhancing efficiency of NPK, fertilizer placement. Integrated nutrients management and their impact on crops under water deficit conditions. Physiological processes that determine the crop growth, development and yield. Mitigating the impact of drought stress on crops through exogenous application of different osmoprotectants/ osmolytes. Keeping in view the changing climate and late sowing wheat in rice-wheat and cotton-wheat cropping system, recent research focus is induction of thermotolerance in wheat by application of silicon and hydrogen peroxide.

Position & Department: Professor, Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture

Research Intersts: Climate change is spreading like an epidemic and agriculture is most vulnerable to this catastrophe. I am aiming at the risk assessment of climate change impact in Pakistan. My lab is engaged in determining the climate variability with special reference to spatial and temporal variability in crop yields. The other aspect of my research is climate change forecasting by the use of Crop Growth Modeling, to develop the mitigation and adaptation strategies against the climate change and to sustain the agricultural productivity in the era of climate change through crop growth modeling, spectral reflectance indices and remote sensing technology. In future, my lab aims to develop a network of automatic weather stations in the country in different agro-ecological zones, to acquire Met. data, process that data and to translate it into the simple, understandable language for the farmers of Pakistan in particular, and for students, researchers, policy makers and people of Pakistan in general.

Position & Department: Professor, Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture

Research Intersts: Weeds are one of the major constraints to productivity of field crops world wide. It is, therefore, imperative that negative impact of weeds on crops may be studied to develop sustainable weed control strategies. My research interests are in the field of both basic and applied research on weed biology, herbicide selectivity, allelopathy and weed control in field crops.